In an editorial in the magazine Commentary, Krauthammer wrote that neoconservativism “is the maturation of a governing ideology whose time has come.” The original “fathers of neoconservatism” were “former liberals or leftists.” More recently, they have been joined by “realists, newly mugged by reality,” such as Condoleezza Rice, Richard Cheney and George W. Bush, who “have given weight to neoconservatism, making it more diverse and, given the newcomers’ past experience, more mature."[3]